In 2009, a Colorado family falsely claimed their young son floated away in a homemade balloon. The boy later deflated the ...

Ron Cassidy, a retired engineer, makes his own hot air balloons and sells them to other balloonists. He pilots Owyhee Heights at the 2024 Great Prosser Balloon Rally.

Most new laws in Georgia passed during the 2025 legislative session take effect today, July 1. But there isn't one related to ...

A global helium shortage could burst the bubble for all the businesses that rely on the gas to lift weather balloons, large blimps, and, yes, the balloons at your kid’s birthday bash that make ...

The demise of Party City has made business boom for local balloon supply stores, but the impacts of inflation and tariffs offer a challenge to staying afloat.

The balloon will lift off into the sky each summer evening from June 21 to Sept. 14, for the next three years.

Helium is lighter than air, and the filled balloons displace heavier air to create lift. A team of handlers on the ground guide the balloon with tethers.

Multiple black pibals — small helium-filled balloons used to assess wind speed and direction — were sent into the air just after sunrise at the Port of Benton’s Prosser Airport before the ...

Ukrainian startup Aerobavovna is making waves with a low-tech warfare solution: helium-filled aerostats balloons that extend drone communications.

Multiple black pibals — small helium-filled balloons used to assess wind speed and direction — were sent into the air just after sunrise at the Port of Benton’s Prosser Airport before the balloons ...